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There was that one episode with Barclay that showed he was conscious during transport and also showed that people could exist inside the matter stream (or whatever the technobabble is).

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aaaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah that whole episode had strange ideas. He grabbed a fish person from the master stream and it became a human person when he integrated, and that just makes no sense with how the transporter works. Even O’Brien couldn’t figure that one out

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Neato@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I haven't seen that episode. But it kind of defeats the traditional explanation of how transporters work. Unless we go with the "we can exist as beings made of energy" which is always a popular type of alien or alternate being in Star Trek. And the classic transporter accidents don't make sense, then. When a transporter clones someone, who is the real one and how would you figure it out? Most of the accidents only make sense if you treat a transporter as a digital device that moves data.

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- DharkStare@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Transporters are inconsistent in how they work in Star Trek. The transporters work however the writers of the episode need it to work for the plot. Sometimes it’s a clone machine and sometimes it’s something else.
  
  The Barclay episode I was referring to was Realm of Fear.
  
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